The 1975 exhibition: Ottawa Exhibition

An article on the economic, social and political history of Canada during the 1930s. The changes and trends in Canadian painting during this period are traced by the exhibition Canadian Painting in the Thirties, organized by and opening at the National Gallery of Canada. The show will travel to Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Montreal. Article illustrated with coloor reproductions of Jack Humphrey?s Charlotte (1939), a detail of Miller Brittain?s Longshoremen (1940), Paul-Émile Borduas? Portrait of Maurice Gagnon (1937), Goodridge Roberts?s Marian (1937), Jean Paul Lemieux?s Lazarus (1941), Fred Varley?s Landscape with Eskimos, Baffin Island (1938), Paraskeva Clark?s Petroushka (1937), André Biéler?s Before the Auction (1938), Philip Surrey?s Sunday Afternoon (1939), Carl Schaefer?s Ontario Farmhouse (1939), Jock Macdonald?s Indian Burial, Nootka (1937).

Photographs

Images of the exhibition's installation, the opening ceremony and official visits.